Career
Qualifications
Practice and experience
I have a doctorate in literature and film studies with experience in teaching and self-administration at German, English and American universities. In eight years at the University of Oxford, I was shaped by the organizational culture as well as the interdisciplinary environment at the college. Here I dealt with discrimination, anti-bias in admissions procedures, mental health resilience early on, got to know helpful methods and structures and brought the topics with me to Germany.
As a long-standing science manager in the areas of career development, equal opportunities and participation, leadership development and education, I have designed and led numerous events, workshops and seminars for doctoral candidates, postdocs and managers and published on topics such as biases in the science system and mentoring in science. In addition, I have closely supported and promoted the topics of education in the digital transformation and mediation in museums, written positions and communicated them in the political arena, for example.
At Wikimedia Deutschland, as a consultant for science, culture and education, I mainly worked on the topics of knowledge equity and marginalized knowledge and in this context established contacts and partnerships, published policy briefs and a blog series.
I am happy to use my extensive knowledge of the science system and the cultural sector, its mechanisms and its stakeholders in the conception, implementation and moderation of strategy processes as well as in the development of programs for scientists.
Knowledge and communication
I am always passionate about the questions surrounding knowledge: what is knowledge? What are the prerequisites for our knowledge and what perspectives are reflected in our knowledge? How can these perspectives be mapped? I am just as passionate about communicating complex topics in different media and forms of knowledge - it is no coincidence that my last research project dealt with "the knowledge of literature" and embodied cognition.
This has actually been the case throughout my career: whether as an active member of the theater group, as a member of the dramaturgy team at the Staatstheater Stuttgart, as a team member of the International Youth Encounter at the Dachau Memorial, in teaching at the University of Oxford or New York University: thinking and developing complex ideas together is a priority for me and gives me the energy that I like to pass on to groups! I have acquired a wide range of methods through my experience in various fields. With my research in the field of reception theory, embodied cognition and phenomenology, the question of processing narrative patterns has always been at the center of my investigations. I have acquired a lot of practical experience in the various contexts. As a contact person for the humanities and educational science institutes, I helped to establish the Leibniz Competence Center Education in Museums.
Now, too, I am concerned with designing spaces for reflection and creativity in which a change of perspective, change and constant learning and understanding are possible - whether for the individual or an entire organization!